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In 2014 the Green Island 1 became one of the first wrecks to be excavated by the Bureau of Cultural Heritage in Taiwan, two years after the establishment of the Underwater Heritage Department, and one year before the implementation of the Underwater…

Although it has long been known that a purposely designed and built ‘pagoda’ lighthouse existed on the Penghu Islands’ Xiyu (Fisher’s) Island as of 1778, exactly what it looked like, how large it was and where it was placed vis-à-vis the 1875 Chinese…

Due to frequent naval battles and inclement weather conditions, Mauritius has been the site of an extensive number
of shipwrecks. Research-based on historical and archival sources carried out over more than thirty years seeks to
record this…

A total of 17 underwater excavations have taken place in Korea. Out of these 14 of them yielded Goryeo Dynasty (AD918~1392) artefacts and in 8 cases remains of the shipwreck itself was also discovered. These are clear examples showing the active…

The signature watercraft of Sri Lanka, and other interconnected areas, is the ‘Oru’, which is presented here: a log-based single outrigger craft. Unlike most outrigger craft of the Pacific, south-east Asia and east Africa, the ‘Oru’ was a…

Climate change is our greatest challenge. The paper is looking for the impact on underwater cultural heritage
(UCH), deep oceans, and coastal zone through literature reference and case studies. It will discuss the causes of
climate change, the…

Southeast Asian people have been involved in maritime interaction since prehistoric times. Although Neolithic
archaeology in mainland Southeast Asia revealed that people might have sailed in open seas for marine resource
gathering, second century…

Various types of stone anchors have been observed during inshore and offshore explorations along the east and west coasts of India. The earliest stone anchors of India have been recorded from the Harappan sites (3rd millennium BC), but their shape…

Maritime archaeology, a new branch of social sciences, took its birth in the Mediterranean Sea in the 19th century and academically it began after 1950. Maritime archaeology is also known as ‘underwater’, ‘marine’ and ‘nautical’…